{"id":482616,"date":"2026-02-18T08:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:34:29","slug":"updates-from-practice-feb-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482616\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates from practice \u2013 Feb. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROSSARD \u2013 Alex Newhook and the Canadiens were back on the ice Tuesday following a 12-day break for the Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>Newhook, who had been skating on his own for the past few weeks, rejoined the team for practice for the first time since suffering a fractured ankle on November 13. Tuesday marked just over three months since his November 14 surgery, approaching the end of the four-month recovery timeline initially announced by the team.<\/p>\n<p>Patrik Laine, who is being evaluated on a daily basis for a lower-body injury, and the players competing in Milano Cortina 2026 were the only ones absent for the restart:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROSSARD \u2013 Alex Newhook and the Canadiens were back on the ice Tuesday following a 12-day break for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-482616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}